Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Monday, August 19, 2013

10 Things You Didn't Know About Oktoberfest...Zinzinnati That Is

10 Things You Didn't Know About Oktoberfest...Zinzinnati That Is: " Oktoberfest Zinzinnati is the second biggest Oktoberfest celebration in the world - the only one bigger is the original in Munich."

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Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Homeowner Legal Options Against HOA | The Bainbridge Law Firm, L.L.C. | Scottsdale Arizona


Arizona law places certain restrictions on HOAs, regardless of the powers given to the HOA in the community documents. Below is a list of some common restrictions on HOA power. If the following principles are not followed, an HOA decision could be invalidated.

  • Board members must act as fiduciaries to the association, meaning all board members must put the interests of the community ahead of their own personal interests when acting on behalf of the HOA.
  • If any HOA action could financially benefit a board member or that board member's immediate family, the board member must state this conflict at an open meeting before voting on the issue.
  • HOAs must act reasonably and treat members fairly. An HOA may not carry out its duties in a manner that is arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable. In other words, community rules must be reasonably enforced.
  • HOAs may not selectively enforce community rules against particular homeowners. HOA rules must be enforced as equally as possible.

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Josh Haberman: Hello, JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs

http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/12/hello-jit-world-joy-of-simple-jits.html


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Former President George W. Bush recovering after heart surgery | wfaa.com Dallas - Fort Worth

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/blockage-discovered-in-president-george-w-bushs-heart-218505281.html

"He had a stress test as part of his annual physical. During the
stress test there were EKG changes, which prompted a CT angiogram that
confirmed the blockage."


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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Slate: Lennon + McCartney = Nilsson



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doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.05.030

Despite public perception to the contrary,12,46,47 when all types of injuries are considered together, rural areas, not urban, bear a disproportionate amount of injury-related mortality risk in the United States 


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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Thursday, July 11, 2013

95% of everything I do is 100% legal

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Protecting Users of the Cyber Commons | September 2011 | Communications of the ACM

http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/9/122784-protecting-users-of-the-cyber-commons/fulltext


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Rationally Speaking: Democracy: the Egyptian conundrum

Contra what many of my secular humanist and atheist friends seem to think, it is not necessary for religious discourse to be sealed off from the public square. It is perfectly all right — indeed, inevitable — for politicians, say, to be guided in their thinking by their religious faith. What is not acceptable is the advancement of religious arguments when it comes to policy debates. Rather, the religious person needs to translate his objections (or positive proposals) into neutral language that can be debated on secular (in the sense above, not as in "secular humanism") terms.

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Thursday, July 04, 2013

UA MAGAZINE: False Numbers: Muslims And Population Growth

http://www.united-academics.org/magazine/getting-right/muslim-global-population/


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Victor J. Willi: Letter From Cairo


Once again it showed the Brotherhood's limited understanding of democracy, which is restricted to the mechanics of voting, elections and ballot boxes, while showing precious little appreciation for the values that make up the essence of a democracy, such as the rule of law, citizenship, equality and human rights

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Are Happy Gut Bacteria Key to Weight Loss? | Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/gut-microbiome-bacteria-weight-loss


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Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Bead-Chain VIDEO Uses Slo-Mo To Show How Falling Beads Seem To Float

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/bead-chain-video-falling-beads-float_n_3529944.html


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Paula Deen's Ugly Roots : The New Yorker


The controversy stems from a suit brought by a former employee, who claims, among other things, that Deen presided over a culture of racial and sexual impropriety, particularly at Uncle Bubba's Oyster House, the Savannah restaurant Deen set up for her brother, Bubba Hiers: pornography in the workplace, racial insults, nostalgia for the antebellum South. (In planning Bubba's wedding, the employee asserts in the complaint, Deen allegedly said, "I want a true southern plantation-style wedding.… Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n-----s to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around.") In other words, we now have "Kitchen Confidential: Georgia Edition," with an inverted power structure and markedly un-Vassar politics.

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Saturday, June 29, 2013

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Read The Full Transcript Of Paula Deen’s Controversial Racial Comments | TPMDC


Jackson's complaint also accuses Deen of racism and enabling Hiers' behavior. According to the complaint, Deen and other managers at her companies ignored Jackson's attempts to discuss Hiers' behavior. As evidence that Deen "holds such racist views herself," the complaint details an incident that occurred when Jackson was in charge of "food and serving arrangements" at Hier's wedding in 2007. The complaint includes a comment Deen allegedly made when asked by Jackson what type of uniforms the servers should wear at the wedding.

"Well what I would really like is a bunch of little niggers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around," the lawsuit claims Deen said. "Now that would be a true southern wedding, wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that."



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Jackson-v.-Deen-et-al.-Complaint.pdf

http://www.atlawblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Jackson-v.-Deen-et-al.-Complaint.pdf


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American Atheists Unveils Godless Monument in Front of Florida Courthouse… and Announces Many More!

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/06/29/american-atheists-unveils-godless-monument-in-front-of-florida-courthouse-and-announces-many-more/

Got to love it.

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Chandler Intel nitrogen leak sends 11 to hospital

http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/20130629chandler-intel-nitrogen-leak-arizona-brk.html?sf14471323=1&nclick_check=1


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N.Y. man's death leads police to arsenal

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

N.Y. man's death leads police to arsenal

http://usat.ly/12svlx9


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Thursday, June 27, 2013

In Defense of Paula Deen: How a Righteous Call for Blood Turned into Good Old Bullying | Observer

http://observer.com/2013/06/in-defense-of-paula-deen-how-a-righteous-call-for-blood-turned-into-good-old-bullying/

By the end of this week, when the racist glimmer dust has settled and
the fat has coagulated, Paula Deen will be a ruined woman. She'll be
the Hester Prynne of fried food, the Tess d'Urbervilles of
cholesterol. She's already been forsaken by Target, Novo Nordisk,
Walmart, Caesar's Palace and millions of non-racist fans. She wept on
Today and couldn't even get her subject and verbs to agree. "I is what
I is," she said tearfully, channeling both George Gershwin and Popeye.

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Bad Day for Bigots III | Futile Democracy

http://futiledemocracy.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/bad-day-for-bigots-iii/

Rednecks marrying their trucks!

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PS4 and Xbox One high volumes no problem for AMD | GamesIndustry International

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-06-25-ps4-and-xbox-one-high-volumes-no-problem-for-amd

AMD owns the next-generation of consoles

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Friday, June 21, 2013

Help Abby Recover from Dog Attack | Nonprofits - YouCaring.com

http://www.youcaring.com/nonprofits/help-abby-recover-from-dog-attack/66152


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Acupuncture Doesn’t Work « Science-Based Medicine

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/acupuncture-doesnt-work/

the benefits of acupuncture are likely nonexistent, or at best are too
small and too transient to be of any clinical significance. It seems
that acupuncture is little or no more than a theatrical placebo

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Key Points for Doctors | Endopat Test | Arterial Health

http://arterialhealth.net/physicians/physician-information/


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Itamar Medical

http://www.itamar-medical.com/Support/FAQ_EndoPAT.html


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Rotten America – Big Prison, Arrest Quotas, and What Education Really Pays For | Skeptikai


In a research paper published in 2003, Lance Lochner from the University of Western Ontario and Enrico Morette from University of California at Los Angeles wrote this:

The impact of education on crime implies that there are benefits to education not taken into account by individuals themselves, so the social return to schooling is larger than the private return. The estimated social externalities from reduced crime are sizeable. A 1% increase in the high school completion rate of all men ages 20-60 would save the United States as much as $1.4 billion per year in reduced costs from crime incurred by victims and society at large. Such externalities from education amount to $1,170-2,100 per additional high school graduate or 14-26% of the private return to schooling. It is difficult to imagine a better reason to develop policies that prevent high school drop out.


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Companion Animal Psychology: The end for shock collars?

http://www.companionanimalpsychology.com/2013/06/the-end-for-shock-collars.html


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Monday, June 17, 2013

Snowden hits back against critics of NSA leaks | Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/17/us-snowden-forum-trial-idUSBRE95G0NQ20130617

Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can
give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like
him ... the better off we all are.

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Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance | Wired Opinion | Wired.com


As Supreme Court Justice Breyer elaborates:

The complexity of modern federal criminal law, codified in several thousand sections of the United States Code and the virtually infinite variety of factual circumstances that might trigger an investigation into a possible violation of the law, make it difficult for anyone to know, in advance, just when a particular set of statements might later appear (to a prosecutor) to be relevant to some such investigation.

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Sunday, June 16, 2013

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Thursday, June 13, 2013

9 Questions Not To Ask Atheists — With Answers » Greta Christina's Blog

godless-atheists-threaten-christian-civilization-cartoon1: "How can you be moral without believing in God?"

The answer: Atheists are moral for the same reasons believers are moral: because we have compassion, and a sense of justice. Humans are social animals, and like other social animals, we evolved with some core moral values wired into our brains: caring about fairness, caring about loyalty, caring when others are harmed.


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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

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Phoenix man faces terrible choice: family or country
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